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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!uunet!sci34hub!gary From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Subject: Re: Shutdown problem. Message-ID: <1993Apr5.192613.16534@sci34hub.sci.com> Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston) Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al. References: <1pgqjfINNjs5@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 19:26:13 GMT Lines: 21 In article <1pgqjfINNjs5@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> altitude@css.itd.umich.edu (Hubert Chen) writes: > I've just got the bindist installed on my machine. (but not the etcdist). >I can't get the shutdown command to work anymore. When I do shutdown now, it >puts me in single user mode, ok. this is going to sound really dumb, >but...what do I do now. If I shut my machine off now, when I reboot, it finds >all sorts of disk problems on reboot. I don't understand. [ ... ] Shutdown should eventually prompt you to hit any key to reboot; it usually takes a minute or so before this appears. Personally, I got tired of having to tell it "now" every time I forgot, so I linked the shutdown command from the boot floppy (it's installed somewhere under /usr, but not in the path) to /usr/bin/down. Seems to work fine; less hassle to type, and I don't have to worry about options. -- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither. Remember: A majority of the American people voted against *all* of the Presidential Candidates. How encouraging....